2014 GP3 season silly season

[Formulahistory]

ART
Jack Harvey (?)
Esteban Ocon (?)
Andrea Pizzitola (?)

MW Arden
Beitske Visser (?)

Koiranen
Patrick Kujala (?)
Nyck de Vries (?)

Carlin
Jordan King (?)

Marussia Manor
Oliver Rowland (?)

Jenzer
Patric Niederhauser (?)
Alex Fontana (?)
Kevin Jörg (?)

Trident
Emanuele Zonzini (?)

Status
Josh Webster (?)

Russian Time
Marvin Kirchhöfer (?)
Artem Markelov (?)
Egor Orudhev (?)

[Formulahistory]

Santiago Urrutia will test for Koiranen, as does Dean Stoneman.

[Formulahistory]

testing update:

Stoneman and Urrutia for Koiranen
Jörg for Jenzer

[Biscuits In A Red Bull]

Well, Kvyat won't be here next season, I'm still sure that Marussia will get Ellinas into GP2.

Joining Giovanni Venturini and Emanuele Zonzini at Trident will be Robert Cregan.

[kipper]

Josh Webster has won the Porsche Carerra Cup GB Scholarship, so will presumably be racing in that championship in 2014.

[Formulahistory]

Fontana will test for ART.

[Formulahistory]

ART: Fontana, Gasly, Zonzini
MW Arden: Visoiu, Mardenborough, Bernstorff
Koiranen: Stoneman, Urrutia, De Vries
Carlin: Sa Silva, Latifi, Pittard
Marussia Manor: Zamparelli, Rowland, McKee
Jenzer: Niederhauser, Jörg, Fumanelli
Trident: De Beer, Cregan, Taranov
Status: Korjus, Cassidy, Hawksworth
Russian Time: Kirchhöfer, Eriksson, Pommer

[Biscuits In A Red Bull]

Any news regarding Jack Harvey? After winning the 2012 British F3 series he didn't live up to expectations in GP3 really, and now where will he go?

I still can't really see Nick Cassidy getting the money, but would love to be proved wrong.

[jondownunder]

Originally Posted by Formulahistory

ART: Fontana, Gasly, Zonzini
MW Arden: Visoiu, Mardenborough, Bernstorff
Koiranen: Stoneman, Urrutia, De Vries
Carlin: Sa Silva, Latifi, Pittard
Marussia Manor: Zamparelli, Rowland, McKee
Jenzer: Niederhauser, Jörg, Fumanelli
Trident: De Beer, Cregan, Taranov
Status: Korjus, Cassidy, Hawksworth
Russian Time: Kirchhöfer, Eriksson, Pommer

You really need to clarify what that list is. Rumoured drivers? Wild guesses? To avoid confusion it's best to add a question mark after each name.

[p-matt]

Alex Lynn to Carlin, and now backed by Red Bull. Great choice from Red Bull, and Alex should definitely be a championship contender.

Although it's a bit strange that he's not racing for Arden given their Red Bull connections, and the fact they won the last two drivers titles.

[ptclaus98]

Would really like to see Michael Lewis give this a crack. He beat Marciello in a straight fight in Italian F3, won in the Euroseries in 2012, and just had a dismal season in F3 this year, albeit without much testing. I think a year in GP3 would tell the tale on him.

[ivanalesi]

Yeah, he didn't adapt to the F312 as well as to the F308, but I dont remember him testing either GP3 or FR3.5...

[ptclaus98]

Originally Posted by ivanalesi

Yeah, he didn't adapt to the F312 as well as to the F308, but I dont remember him testing either GP3 or FR3.5...

He's driven a 3.5 before, he's got video of him testing it on youtube.

[chunterer]

Originally Posted by p-matt

Alex Lynn to Carlin, and now backed by Red Bull. Great choice from Red Bull, and Alex should definitely be a championship contender.

Although it's a bit strange that he's not racing for Arden given their Red Bull connections, and the fact they won the last two drivers titles.

I'd liked them to have put him in 3.5 and Gasly in GP3 but I suspect the French angle swayed it one way?

[Biscuits In A Red Bull]

Personally I'd prefer to see both in FR3.5 - both are huge talents.

[kipper]

Originally Posted by p-matt

Although it's a bit strange that he's not racing for Arden given their Red Bull connections, and the fact they won the last two drivers titles.

True, but then Carlin are also a known quality to Red Bull given their previous involvement in the junior programme.

[Formulahistory]

My guess:

ART: Alex Fontana (?), Emanuele Zonzini (?), Jimmy Eriksson (?)
MW Arden: Robert Visoiu (?), Jann Mardenborough (?), Emil Bernstorff (?)
Koiranen: Carmen JordÃ* (?), Santiago Urrutia (?), Nyck de Vries (?)
Carlin: Alex Lynn, Luis Sa Silva (?), Nicolas Latifi (?)
Marussia Manor: Dino Zamparelli (?), Melville McKee (?), Ryan Cullen (?)
Jenzer: Patric Niederhauser (?), David Fumanelli (?), Kevin Jörg (?)
Trident: Robert Cregan (?), Roman de Beer (?), Julian Branger (?)
Status: Kevin Korjus (?), Nick Cassidy (?), Jack Hawksworth (?)
Russian Time: Marvin Kirchhöfer (?), Markus Pommer (?), Ivan Taranov (?)

[jondownunder]

Dean Stoneman has said he will be doing GP3 full time this season:

Despite going straight into the Abu Dhabi GP3 weekend with no testing, Stoneman came close to winning race two. Now he wants the 2014 title.

"I'm going to do GP3 this year. We've got a few offers from teams, and looking at what's happened with Daniil Kvyat, you never know where it could lead."

http://live.autosport.com/commentary.php/id/686

[Hawkwood]

Niederhauser and Visoiu at Arden, and Carbone and de Beer at Trident.
http://www.gp3series.com/Teams-and-Drivers/

I hope Niederhauser still does his sportscars this year, he was excellent last year, that seems to be his calling.

[Hawkwood]

Russian Time have announced Jimmy Eriksson as their first driver of 2014
http://www.gp3series.com/News/2014/J...iver-for-2014/

[Formulahistory]

It was amazing how bad Eriksson was last year...

[kotkot]

He raced for Status, which was far from ideal for a rookie. Wait how much he'll improve this year.

[Biscuits In A Red Bull]

Russian Time should be quick. They've inherited a decent team and from their GP2 success, seem to know what they're doing. If Eriksson doesn't win that'd be a disappointment.

[Hawkwood]

Red Bull are taking Jann Mardenborough to GP3 with Arden:
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/112537

Boy is that from left field, did not see that happening at all!

[p-matt]

Don't understand the Mardenborough thing either. I get that he has a great story, but the single seater results haven't been stellar. He should have won TRS this year really. Yet he's great in GTs from what I can tell and genuinely impressed in the 3.5 car. Strange